landmark forum cult

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by iheartnihilism

Anyone know about this? My favorite coworker did this seminar over the weekend (13 hours a day, no food or bathroom til your breaks?!) and said she wanted me to come to her "graduation" tomorrow. After doing some research I'm seeing articles and forums where people say this place is a scam and a cult and this Tuesday thing is just a thing where members try to recruit more people. She knows I'm not the type of person to get into this psychobabble stuff and said it would mean a lot if I went so I'm going but am nervous about what I'm getting myself into. Has anyone had experience with this place? I know they have a set up in L.A. and New York.

Its supposed to make you more open to bettering yourself or something but it also makes you contact people from your past and apologize (you're always wrong..?) and basically calls you out for being an asshole who cares about shit that doesn't matter. It seems looney tunes to me.

Thoughts?

Anything that tortures you into submission by withholding food/sleep/family/etc (scientology, army, catholic church) is a scam/cult

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by tempfoot

I have a good friend who got deeply into Landmark. Origins of Landmark are from Est.

Not a very hardcore cult as such things go, but many cult-like aspects. Stay in it long enough and you will only really relate to others that have bought-in and adopted the ideology and language as much as you have.

The 'bring-your-friends' night is a (very) hard sell session - not a nice 'graduation'. Went once, and the people almost literally would not take no for an answer.

You pay (a lot) to take the initial weekend class, and if you get sucked in you pay more and more to take higher level classes. If you pay enough you get the opportunity to rise through the ranks, get more involved, and provide ridiculous amounts of free labor - all for a for-profit enterprise.

So, did you go?

So the Pepsi to the Coke that is Scientology?

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by iheartnihilism

$620 for the first weekend. The "advanced course" (another weekend) is $595 and theres a 3rd level but I don't know how much that is. They try to tell you that the advanced course will ensure you really "get it". My friend had just finished the advanced course, for that much money I just bought a puppy so I guess we all find happiness in different places..

Scammers scamming people that will need to sell other people on the scam so they don't feel as scammed...

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by iheartnihilism

One of the reasons his breed was a top contender. (I also like how creepy and derpy they manage to look at the same time..)

Jenna Marbles made me love them with her dog vids, especially pairing them up with her chihuahua, the dog I have

I have a folder in my GIF folder of just her dogs being derpy

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by iheartnihilism

By my estimates there were at least 450 people there, and only about 100 or less were there like me to support a friend. Everyone else had either paid $620 or, like my friend, $1200. It's just insane because you can get all that they offer from $100 worth of philosophy and self help books. Ugh.

BOOM = SCAM

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by PrinceParas

I understand that most people find it costly because they compare it with any other programmes which have lesser fees and longer duration. Everyone has their own perspective to judge the worthiness of any such training programmes. I was holding back because I too found the fees a way high compared to any event. And to findout that the lunch and dinner is also not included raised eyebrows as I would get it even for a $100 event. But I had to anyway do it as my company required all managers to go for it and to acquire leadership skills and landmark distinctions. I had no way to escape. I did it just to findout that How I was ignoring the problem with my dad. I knew before the programme that I dont have good relation with him. But it is only forum I realised that what impact that had on his health and mind along with the family. I found the course worth as I could see our relation from totally different angle. Many in my batch were getting breakthroughs some did not get it. It is definitely not cult. I have shared my heart here > Is Landmark Forum a Cult or MLM scam? | Online Guide

The only things I did not like is....
1) No arrangement of lunch and dinner when they want participants to finish it on time and reach the venue punctually.
2) Using people to work as voluntarily for profit making activities they are doing

Are you a new account on this forum trying to upsell us on a scam? Is this really the new scientology where we get infiltrated off google search pings?

Such a random response for a brand new forums member...

==SCAM

I JUST finished managing a professional offsite for development. Nowhere did we ask our employees to recruit their friends into our mindset, much less when we dove into deep things like their life path....

We PAID THEM to be professionally developed AND I provided food, drink, coffee, etc on schedule.

Check yourself bot..

[Keith]

What's the number after 7?

[memecherry]

It's Scientology with a fake moustache telling you it's my-entology.